Sub-units31st Field Battery, Canadian Artillery68th Field Battery, Canadian Artillery85th Field Battery, Canadian ArtilleryAttached – 5th Medium Battery, Canadian ArtilleryDetached: 58th Field Battery CA-Victoria; attached to 5th (British Columbia) Regiment Canadian Garrison Artillery

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​Promotions and AppointmentsMajor Richard Thomas Perry VD is promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and appointed Commanding Officer. He was born in Cardiff, England on 28 November 1884. He had prior service in the British forces and was a Sergeant with the 19 Company Canadian Army Service Corp when he volunteered for the Canadian Over-seas Expeditionary Force on 1 November 1914. Lieutenant-Colonel Perry served in the First World War and served in France and Belgium from 30 September 1915 until 10 April 1916; from 27 November 1916 until 10 February 1917 and from 22 May 1917 until 6 June 1917. He received the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.

PERRY, Richard Thomas (1884- c. 1935), was active in Vancouver, B.C. and in Calgary, Alta. where he worked under his own name, and in a progression of partnerships including:Perry & Purvis (1910-11)Perry & Nicolais (1911-13)Perry & Fowler (1913-19)Richard T. Perry (1920-26)Perry & Kerr (1926)Richard T. Perry (1927-33)Born in Cardiff, Wales on 28 November 1884, he was educated there and articled to Charles B. Fowler, FRIBA, (1849-1941), a prominent architect in Cardiff who later emigrated to Vancouver, B.C. in 1913 and who later formed a partnership with his young apprentice. Perry opened an office in Cardiff, but in 1907 he left for Canada, choosing to settle in Vancouver where he was active for the next twenty-five years. He was briefly in partnership with George B. Purvis (Vancouver City Directory, 1910, 1044), and the following year formed a new partnership with Raphael A. Nicolais. Their collaboration was brief; by 1913 he had entered into a new partnership, this time with Major Charles B. Fowler (1849-1941), his former employer in Cardiff, Wales under whom he had articled as a student for five years. Perry went overseas during WWI to serve with the Canadian Army, and later returned to Vancouver in February 1919 where he resumed his practise under his own name from 1920 to 1926.He collaborated briefly with Robert C. Kerr in 1926, then continued to work alone, designing more than a dozen apartment blocks and commercial buildings in Vancouver. With a growing business in Vancouver, Perry opened a branch office in Calgary, Alta. in 1929 (C.R., xliii, 14 Aug. 1929, 963), but the stock market crash in October 1929 had a drastic impact on his work there and in Vancouver, and his membership in the A.I.B.C. was cancelled in 1930, but he remained active there to complete work on the design and construction of two Armouries for the federal government.R.T. PERRYSTRATHCONA HOTEL, West Hastings Street, major alterations, 1908GILLIS SUPPLY CO., warehouse, 1909 (C.R., xxiii, 22 Sept. 1909, 23)PERRY & NICOLAISWEST HOMER AVENUE, warehouse for J.A. Conrey, 1911MAIN STREET, a large brick theatre building seating 500 patrons, 1911HONG KONG, CHINA, a large bank and office building “for a Vancouver syndicate”, 1911SUN AH HOTEL, East Pender Street at Gore Avenue, 1911EAST PENDER STREET, at Columbia Street, commercial block and apartments for Loo Gee Wing, 1911-12SAM KEE HOTEL, Main Street at Harris Street, 1911-12; demol.RYAN COURT APARTMENTS, West 10th Avenue, 1912SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for Jonathan W. Foster, Cedar Crescent at Cypress Street, 1912SHAUGHNESSY HEIGHTS, residence for William Hickey, Osler Avenue near The Crescent, 1912HAMILTON STREET, warehouse for George B. Baker, 1912PERRY & FOWLERCITY OF VANCOUVER OLD PEOPLE’S HOME, Boundary Road, 1914PORT COQUITLAM, B.C., St. Catherine’s Episcopal Church, 1914GRANDVIEW DRILL HALL, for the Federal Dept. of Public Works, Commercial Dr near William St, 1913-18WEST 2nd AVENUE, near Tolmie Street, residence for James Cashman, 1919R.T. PERRYMOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY, a Monument for WWI Returned Soldiers, 1922DUNBAR HEIGHTS UNITED CHURCH, West 24th Avenue near Dunbar Street, 1922FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH, Fir Street at West 12th Avenue, 1924ST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH, Cordova Street, a lych gate for the church, 1924, and later removed to the site of St. Martin’s Anglican Church, East Windsor Street, North Vancouver, c. 1929PERRY & KERRSECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST, West 12th Avenue at Cypress Street, 1926RYERSON UNITED CHURCH, Point Grey, West 45th Avenue at Yew Street, 1926-27R.T. PERRYSHAUGHNESSY HOSPITAL, Tuberculosis Pavilion, West 28th Avenue, c. 1926, demol.KERRISDALE, at Point Grey, a tract of 32 large houses for Kerrisdale Home Builders Ltd., 1927ROSLYN APARTMENTS, Jervis Street at Barclay Street, 1927ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, Granville St at W Hastings St, bank & office block, design 1927; built 1930-32TATLOW COURT APARTMENTS, Bayswater Street, 1927-28SANTA MONICA APARTMENTS, West 12th Street near Fir Street, 1928WALDRON APARTMENTS, Barclay Street near Denman Street, 1928 COMPTON LODGE APARTMENTS, Beach Avenue at Lagoon Drive, for J.P. Hodgson, 1928VENETIAN BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, East Hastings Street near Hawks Avenue, community hall, 1928NELSON STREET, apartment block for P.J. Scott, 1928-29NICOLA STREET, apartment block for Shaw & Rentfrow, 1928-29RANDALL BUILDING, West Georgia Street, 1929POINT GREY ARMOURIES, Kerrisdale, Federal Dept. of Public Works, W 45th Ave near East Blv, 1928-32CALGARY, ALTA., an 8 storey hotel, on 7th Avenue at Centre Street, possibly The York Hotel, 1929CALGARY, ALTA., Prudential Medical & Dental Building, 9th Avenue at Second Street West, 1930CALGARY, ALTA., Film Exchange Building, 12th Avenue at Second Street, 1930COMPETITIONSVICTORIA, B.C., Provincial Normal School, 1912. The firm of Perry & Nicolais submitted a remarkably sophisticated neo-Gothic design in an open competition for this project. Their scheme, with a central clock tower rising nearly 80 feet, was later set aside in favour of the winning design by William C.F. Gillam. A copy of their drawings survive in the Photography Collection of the B.C. Public Archives in Victoria (BCPA, Photo Coll. 70155)FRANCE & BELGIUM, Canadian Battlefields Memorials, 1921. Perry was among over 100 competitors who submitted a design in this two stage competition for these cemetery sites (Const., xiv, June 1921, 164, illus.). His proposal was not among the finalists, and the final award was given to the sculptor Walter S. Allward of Toronto, and to F.C. Clemesha of Regina (C.R., xxxv, 4 May 1921, 452http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/node/2062

Warrant Officer Class II Herbert Hankins MM is promoted to Warrant Officer Class I and appointed Regimental Sergeant Major of 15th Field Brigade, Canadian Artillery on 23 May 1930. He was born in Northamptonshire, England on 21 December 1975. A BC Electric Inspector, he volunteered for the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on 21 February 1916. As a Gunner with the 11th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery, he had been awarded the Military Medal. On 9th April 1917, near ECURIE, Gnr. HANKINS with two other men were conspicuous for their gallantry under shell fire while constructing an Artillery route from our front line forward, By their energy and cheerfulness they did much to inspire their comrades, and expedite the completion of the work. Canadian Military Honours and Awards Citation Card​

Training15th Field Brigade, Canadian Artillery trained at Sarcee Camp in August 1930. All three batteries, 31st, 68th and 85th were in attendance.